According to the so-called empty pack study of market research company Nielsen, the share of smuggled Byelorussian cigarettes is increasing in Estonia while the share of illegal Russian cigarettes is falling, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

According to the regular
"empty pack study", 20.7% of packages of tobacco products found in
Estonia have foreign tax labels and health warnings on them. The majority of
the cigarettes that lack Estonian tax labels originate from Byelorussia and
Russia.

The share of illegal goods has
decreased evenly though in all problematic towns and the pan-Estonian illegal
market has decreased by 3.3 percentage points as compared to an identical study
in the first half of last year.